Personal Letter to a First Time Traveller

olf is around the same age as me. I’ve been friends with Rolf for more than twenty years. In less than two weeks from now, for the first time in his life, Rolf is about to leave his island home and travel overseas. Far from an amateur journey, Rolf is putting all apprehension aside and heading from Australia, to Malaysia, to the United Arab Emirates (via Sri Lanka I think) and then, he will meet up with myself and Phillipa in Shiraz, my favourite city in the Islamic Republic of Iran.